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Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

Mary E. Pearson

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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
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One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.
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Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.
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What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.
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But I am more than a name. More than they tell me
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He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.
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I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)
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Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
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I used to be someone.
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Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
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